Fellows & Editors
Kristi Eaton
- Trip:
- Fellows 2017
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- India
- Year:
- 2017
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Kristi Eaton is an independent journalist who has reported from Mexico, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and the United States. A former staff reporter for The Associated Press and a daily newspaper in the Northern Mariana Islands, she graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism and mass communication. Her freelance work has been published by the AP, the Los Angeles Times, Marie Claire magazine, NBC News, The Guardian and other outlets. Her work focuses on women's rights, indigenous peoples and breaking news. She is also the author of the book "The Main Streets of Oklahoma: Okie Stories from Every County" and was a United Nations Volunteer in Indonesia.
Stories
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Runaway Brides
Perched on her boarding-school bed while taking a break from studying, 16-year-old Dhaup Talniya recounts her plans: First, complete her education. Then become a police officer. That way, she says, she can...
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Witch-Hunting in Eastern India, Activists Fight Back
Elina Horo sits at her desk, combing through the pages of notes written in Hindi that recount the most recent killings. Horo, who is the coordinator of the Adivasi Women’s...
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Rural Indian girls get discrimination-fighting tool: soccer
HUTUP, India — The aging bus meanders through the narrow streets of a tiny village in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, the smell of manure wafting through the air. A thick...
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The Men Trying to Change the Stigma Around Menstruation in India
AHMEDABAD, INDIA – As a boy, Tarun Bothra always wondered why his grandmother kept his mother out of the kitchen for a few days each month. He didn’t realize at...
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Women in India Are Turning a Curse Into ‘Positive Action’ With Entrepreneurship
CHATWAL, India — A group of about half a dozen women are gathered at a lone cement home in a vast expanse of farmland covered in waist-high wheat and mustard seed plants...
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In Rural India, MIT Grads Aim to Improve Access to Sanitary Pads for Women
DUMANDIH, India — Anita Kumari was scared and apprehensive when, at age 13, she first started her period. Though she'd learned about menstruation at her school in rural eastern India, she didn'...
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School for Underprivileged Girls Teaches Feminist Principles in India
LUCKNOW, India — Kunti Rawat was around 11 years old when she left her government-run school in northern India and joined a school for underprivileged girls. It's where, she says, she finally...
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